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Justice & Human Rights
Understanding the Global Refugee Crisis
Students use videos and readings featuring US Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power to develop a historical and human understanding of today’s global refugee crisis.
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Global Immigration
Becoming American: The Chinese Experience Part One - Gold Mountain Dreams
The first of a 3-part series explores the early years of Chinese immigration to the U.S.
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Becoming American: The Chinese Experience Part Three - No Turning Back
The third of a 3-part series explores the immigration laws of 1965, and intimate portraits of the new Chinese Americans
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Becoming American: The Chinese Experience Part Two - Between Two Worlds
The second of a 3-part series explores the impact of the Chinese Exclusion Act
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Justice & Human Rights
Different Perspectives on Migrant Detention
Deepen students’ understanding of the issue of migrant detention by having them consider the diverse perspectives of detained migrants, an immigration lawyer, a border guard, and an immigration judge.
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Justice & Human Rights
What Is Our Obligation To Asylum Seekers?
Help students understand how the United States’ complex asylum process works. Invite them to consider the question, who has an obligation to asylum seekers?
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Why Do People Migrate?
Exploring why people migrate is essential to understanding migration at the US–Mexico border. Use these activities to examine migration from El Salvador to the US and the factors that drive migration.
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